Aaron The Sane Whitaker Bourque
@afbourque.bsky.social
Yeah I'm a socialist because socialists are trying to make things better. Retweets =/= endorsements. He/him. Performative male without the milky drinks.
This likely won't stop anyone, but don't read everything online, especially social media, as serious?
This likely won't stop anyone, but don't read everything online, especially social media, as serious?
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This is a core film for nerdy women, it's about heroically looking up facts
It’s a little funny to post this, put down the phone, and turn on TCM to find DESK SET… which may be the first anti-AI movie, depending on how you choose to read METROPOLIS.
It’s definitely the first anti-AI comedy.
It’s definitely the first anti-AI comedy.
a man in a suit and tie stands next to a woman in front of a sign that says sec l
Alt: Spencer Tracy and Kate Hepburn celebrate the victory of human intelligence over slop.
media.tenor.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is a core film for nerdy women, it's about heroically looking up facts
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maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
maybe I’m being too optimistic given, well, everything
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
but I just don’t think this guy running an explicit white nationalist campaign is going to have anywhere near the juice his boss does
he is a repellent man with a repellent message and people are tired of it all
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This tweet is a masterclass in how to lie, not with statistics, but with language.
According to a POLITICO poll, more respondents in France and Germany want their governments to scale back financial aid to Kyiv than to increase it or keep it the same.
In the U.S., Canada and the U.K., meanwhile, respondents tilt the other way 👇
politi.co/4pFG4SF
In the U.S., Canada and the U.K., meanwhile, respondents tilt the other way 👇
politi.co/4pFG4SF
December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This tweet is a masterclass in how to lie, not with statistics, but with language.
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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Minor correction. There is actually one other group that feels entitled to submit things against the guidelines: plagiarists.
December 21, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Minor correction. There is actually one other group that feels entitled to submit things against the guidelines: plagiarists.
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Imagine historians using AI
December 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Imagine historians using AI
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george costanza-ass punditry
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
george costanza-ass punditry
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Debate also treats meaning, principles, positions, topics, etc as empty and interchangeable and essentially unimportant. Winning is the ONLY thing that matters, and you should switch up your positions to whatever achieves it. It's a deeply, deeply creepy thing to teach kids.
December 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Debate also treats meaning, principles, positions, topics, etc as empty and interchangeable and essentially unimportant. Winning is the ONLY thing that matters, and you should switch up your positions to whatever achieves it. It's a deeply, deeply creepy thing to teach kids.
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Fascists don’t like vulnerability and earnestness, which is what theater kids have in spades. And God knows it’s a safe space for so many LGBTQ kids. It was for me.
Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.
Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.
December 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fascists don’t like vulnerability and earnestness, which is what theater kids have in spades. And God knows it’s a safe space for so many LGBTQ kids. It was for me.
Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.
Debate kids, on the other hand, are all about winning.
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I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.
Ask any gay person what "theater kid," when used as an insult, means. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Move Aside, Snowflake: ‘Theater Kid’ Is the New Go-To Political Insult
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have said it before and I will say it again, Debate Kids are the ones actually ruining the country.
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Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...
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Fifteen competing pathologies all spilling out in this one clip here.
Asked by Erika Kirk what her advice to young men is, Nicki Minaj says, “don’t be like [Gavin] Newscum.”
Nicki then refers to Trump as “our handsome, dashing president.”
She then referred to JD Vance as “an assassin,” and remembered whom she was on stage with.
Erika Kirk then assures her it’s fine
Nicki then refers to Trump as “our handsome, dashing president.”
She then referred to JD Vance as “an assassin,” and remembered whom she was on stage with.
Erika Kirk then assures her it’s fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Fifteen competing pathologies all spilling out in this one clip here.
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The Rick Springfield Paradox: If you get Jessie’s girl, she is no longer Jessie’s girl, and you have obtained nothing.
September 23, 2023 at 10:00 PM
The Rick Springfield Paradox: If you get Jessie’s girl, she is no longer Jessie’s girl, and you have obtained nothing.
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An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament.
Feel safer?
Feel safer?
December 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament.
Feel safer?
Feel safer?
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Oh, fuck.
This one hits hard. Dammit.
This one hits hard. Dammit.
James Ransone, Actor Known for Roles in 'The Wire' and 'It: Chapter Two,' Dies by Suicide at 46
Actor James Ransone, known for his roles in 'The Wire' and 'It: Chapter Two,' has died. He was 46. According to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, Ransone died on Friday, Dec. 19, in an apparent...
people.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Oh, fuck.
This one hits hard. Dammit.
This one hits hard. Dammit.
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Y'all ain't mad at Megan, y'all mad at Megan's Law.
Her husband is a registered sex offender who was recently on house arrest and her brother is doing 25 years for raping a child. She defends and supports them both: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Y'all ain't mad at Megan, y'all mad at Megan's Law.
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Check out the new comics by Emily Flake, Rob Rogers & Kendra Wells curated by @mattbors.bsky.social with 2026 predictions. jensorensen.bsky.social introduces the new startup, MurderKorp, “connecting customers with ordinary people willing to murder someone for them.”
inthesetimes.com/article/kris...
inthesetimes.com/article/kris...
December 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Check out the new comics by Emily Flake, Rob Rogers & Kendra Wells curated by @mattbors.bsky.social with 2026 predictions. jensorensen.bsky.social introduces the new startup, MurderKorp, “connecting customers with ordinary people willing to murder someone for them.”
inthesetimes.com/article/kris...
inthesetimes.com/article/kris...
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So, the answer is yes, he did move her to a Club Fed.
WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her?
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about
WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it?
BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So, the answer is yes, he did move her to a Club Fed.
He does, though.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
He does, though.
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Man every where you went all day every day, “sorry for being white.” Glad that’s over.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Man every where you went all day every day, “sorry for being white.” Glad that’s over.
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I literally got a Nebula subscription to watch this, 10000% worth it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go outside and touch snow. (I’m not actually, it’s midnight and -30, no fucking thank you)
This is the first time they made me slap a content warning on a video. Merry Christmas! nebula.tv/videos/linds...
Lindsay Ellis — The Macabre World of Bodycam YouTube
The American proliferation of body cams hasn’t netted us improved relations with the police, but at least it gave us a whole lot of content.
nebula.tv
December 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I literally got a Nebula subscription to watch this, 10000% worth it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go outside and touch snow. (I’m not actually, it’s midnight and -30, no fucking thank you)
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To the social media manager running this account: is it everything you dreamed of?
Happy birthday, Space Force! As a member of the Armed Services Committee, I'll keep working to support our Guardians, so they can continue defending American interests in space.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
To the social media manager running this account: is it everything you dreamed of?
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Trump hoped for big gains when he pressured GOP-led states to redraw their maps this year. But many developments have brought this battle closer to a draw.
Just how much of a draw? Learn more in our latest “Ask Bolts”:
Just how much of a draw? Learn more in our latest “Ask Bolts”:
The Escalating Race to Redistrict: Your Questions Answered
How are the new maps changing the midterms? Would proportional representation help? Why are courts not doing more? You asked, and we’ve got answers about mid-decade redistricting.
boltsmag.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Trump hoped for big gains when he pressured GOP-led states to redraw their maps this year. But many developments have brought this battle closer to a draw.
Just how much of a draw? Learn more in our latest “Ask Bolts”:
Just how much of a draw? Learn more in our latest “Ask Bolts”: